National Public Health Week 2012, April 2 - 8

"A Healthier America: One Community at a Time"

The Iowa Department of Public Health and its partners join the American Public Health Association in celebrating National Public Health Week, 2010. The theme of this important observance, "A Healthier America: One Community at a Time," provides public health partners in Iowa with a unique opportunity to:

• Demonstrate the importance of public health in promoting and protecting the health of community members and the community itself;
• Showcase the efforts of local public health partners to achieve the goal of creating a healthier Iowa and America, one community at a time; and
• Increase engagement in and support for simple solutions that improve personal and community health through schools, workplaces, and other community partnerships.

What's happening in your community?

• Click on the interactive map to contact your local public health agency.
  

Get involved

• Be a health champion in your school.  
• Be a health champion in your workplace.  
• Be a health champion with other community partners.  
• Be a health champion with policy makers.  
• Be a health champion through social media.  

Make NPHW work for you

• Event ideas and tips  
• Media Advisory Template  
• News Release Template  
• "A Healthier Iowa: One Community at a Time" success stories were designed for your NPHW events. Each article indicates the region from which it comes and the strategy/goal(s) featured. For example, the first story features a Region 2 community's efforts to Promote Healthy Behaviors (HB) and Prevent Injuries (PI).
• Partners bring mental health checkups to local schools   - Region 2 HB, PI
• Community caucus sets health priorities   - Region 1 SI
• Resource helps local employees, businesses   - Region 3 PE, ER
• Food handling classes protect community health   - Region 5 PE, EH
• The Lamoni story from rails to trails   - Region 4 HB
• Poster contest helps prevent disease spread   - Region 6 PE
• Public health and local school target obesity   - Region 2 HB
• Teen worker education protects against hazards   - Region 5 PI, EH
• EMS more than just responding to emergencies   - Regions 1, 6 ER, PI
• Rural Iowans offered flu vaccine at voting booths   - Region 5 PE
• 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Red Dress' promotes heart health   - Region 4 HB
• Rural electronic health record system is first of its kind   - Region 2 SI
• Family mealtime is "reinvented" in Dubuque County   - Region 6 HB
• Regional response exercise uses RAGBRAI scenario   - Region 5 PE, ER
• All Success Stories   (6.5 MB)
• Do you have a story to contribute? Share it on the national NPHW Web site.  
• Governor's Proclamation (JPEG image for printing on legal size paper)
• Download the "Healthy Communities" magazine (20 MB), produced for the 2007 "Barn Raising" Governor's Conference on Public Health. Need hard copies for your office or event? Call Tim Lane at 515-281-7733. The second issue of the Healthy Communities magazine will be available in summer 2010.

Graphics for displays or printed material

          

Download the entire series above (6 total) as high quality JPEG files.  

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Click on the images above to download them from the Microsoft Office Online web site  .

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Click on the images above to download them from the American Public Health Association NPHW site.  

Learn more

• Iowans Fit for Life
• At School
• At Work
• In Your Community
• Be a part of your community's Health Needs Assessment and Health Improvement Planning activities
• Local contact information  
• Iowa Great Places  
• Iowa Farmer's Market Directory (Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship)  
• National Workplace Wellness Week (April 4-10, 2010)  
• Iowa Farm to School (Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship)  
• Tobacco Use Prevention Community Partnership Map
• Safe Routes to School (Iowa Department of Transportation)  
• NPHW resources from the American Public Health Association (APHA)  
• APHA Toolkit